Only two of them were EU citizens
In the first ten months of the year, 2.3 times more illegal migrants were arrested by Arad County border guards on the Romanian-Hungarian border than in the first ten months of last year.
Most of the migrants came from an Asian country and tried to reach to Hungary in a truck or minibus, the Arad County Border Police said.
Authorities told Romanian news agency Agerpres on Monday that between Jan. 1 and the end of October, 759 border trespassers had been apprehended trying to reach Hungary and then Western Europe.
Only two of them are citizens of the European Union, the rest are from outside the EU, in most cases from Asian countries. Ninety percent of them tried to cross the border by hiding in a truck, while the remaining ten percent approached the neighboring state on foot or tried to evade border controls by presenting false documents.